Getting sore

Hit the end of another 3 week cycle, and just in time.  Thursday included a very intense leg strength session on the bike.  I attend a bike spinning class late Thursday nights held at a local cool bike shop (Bike World), which is inhabited mostly by real roadies.  So it's all strength and intervals.  Friday, unsurprisingly, was sore.  Saturday was the big day for the week:  40 min swim, long ride, then 30 min run.  Had been planning on only 2.5 hours on the bike, but a couple other guys wanted to stay for another half hour, so I did too.  And then one of them, who knows what he is doing, pushed us to do some intervals.  They probably weren't that hard if they hadn't been at the end of 3 hours, but they were pretty hard as it was.  Sucked it up and made it through. 

Despite the fatigue of those long trainer rides, I always find the run after to be a relief, almost a pleasure.  It's almost just stretching out the other half of those leg muscles is a relief, at least for a while.  For now, I've kept them to ~30 min.  Longer than that would mean more nutritional needs, especially after all that riding.

Anyway, Sunday was just an easy hour's spin.  Or at least it was supposed to be easy.  Hurt a bit just to get to 90 rpm in low gear.

So now it's recovery week.  Nothing too terribly long.  Took yesterday off.  Slept like a rock two days in a row.  Feel a lot better today.  I hope this is how it's supposed to work.